1134 seconds. Poser 12 on Quadro RTX 5000 using Optix.

Windows 10, Intel I9-10920x 64GB ram.

ghostship2 posted at 2:30PM Tue, 17 November 2020 - #4404910

on the webinar they said that it would be unlikely that Poser would get AMD GPU support any time soon.

I must have misheard. I thought that he said AMD support wasn't as good. The Cycles documentation says that it does have OpenCL support for GCN. It doesn't mention RDNA let alone RDNA2 so I think that's what was meant. I do have a friend with a Radeon VII so we'll download Poser 12 and see what happens.

I think I'll need to wait for the dust to settle and keep my trusty old GTX 980ti for a while longer, it's not too sluggish yet.

I've just downloaded the trial and done half a dozen test renders. The speed difference has already impressed me.

I'm in the market for a new graphics card but it's a really difficult decision now. The Optix optimisation seems like a great idea for RTX cards but at my budget the AMD cards have that "all important?" 16GB of VRAM.

I preferred simpler times :-)

If its an upgrade to Cycles does that mean that there may be AMD support as well? I'm in the market for an upgrade but holding off for this update. Do I even look at AMD cards?

As far as I understand your copies of 10, 12 and 14P will all continue to run as if nothing has happened. 11P will need to be downloaded from https://www.posersoftware.com/downloads It's a free upgrade and comes with a load of extra content which is always good. The additional content files appear to be better organised into Zip files so you don't need to install all the old legacy stuff, just the modern figures if you want. It's live now!

Not sure why there is "Download" and "Faster Download". Who is going to press the "Download" button when its obviously slower